Abby North, 13, was heading to Sunshine Plaza with friends. She was in the back seat of the bus when she turned her head and noticed a man standing behind a boy.

Fiona Theuerkauf was sitting on that bus with Abby. They were planning to catch a movie before hitting the shops. She saw the boy too. And the man standing behind him, leaning against the dirt wall of the overpass.

It was only a head turn, a glimpse from a moving vehicle, but all three would be questioned on that moment for the next 10 years.

Daniel Morcombe in the T-shirt he was wearing when he went missing. Picture: Supplied

Giving evidence in the Supreme Court on the sixth day of the Daniel Morcombe murder trial, the three witnesses – all in their teens when they saw a little boy waiting for a bus – tried to recall what they had seen on December 7, 2003.

Both Ms North and Ms Theuerkauf, from the back of a moving vehicle, saw enough of the man in those short seconds that they were able to describe him in detail to a sketch artist.

“All I can remember, still to this day, (was) a gaunt face and really prominent eyebrows,” Ms North told the court. The sketch, shown to the court, showed a goateed man with long hair and a thin face. His eyes were lined, his eyebrows close. Multiple earrings hung from one ear.

Ms Theuerkauf described a different man. Her man wore a beanie and dark sunglasses.

But other aspects were the same.

Fiona Theuerkauf was one of the witnesses asked to recall seeing Daniel Mocombe on the day he disappeared. Picture: The Courier-Mail

“He had long hair, he had a goatee and indented cheeks,” she told the court.

“He had a tattoo on his arm. He had a bag on the ground next to him as well.”

She had a reason to remember the man and the boy, Ms Theuerkauf told the court.

She saw the boy in the red shirt, playing with a stick as the Sunbus rumbled along the Nambour Connection Rd.

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